# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:09.878Z

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name: "Thomas Simpson"
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description: "Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly \"Kepler's Barrel Rule\"."
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birthDate: "1710-08-20"
deathDate: "1761-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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